I am currently on holiday and finally, I've got my internet working. This is sort of like a series of oneshots strung together. It'll hopefully make sense later on.

Review are appreciated :)

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI:NY; don't sue me I don't have any money.
Summary: Flack slyly tells Stella he sees everything that goes on between Mac and her. In Stella's POV.

According to Flack: No More Ties

Chapter 2

24 hours earlier

"Don't want to go home?! That's certainly understandable; your place is a mess. I'll sign you into a hotel room. Park view? Done! As long as you like"

Flack entered Stella's office.

"I heard Mac offered to spend the night at a hotel with you," Flack teased.
Stella looked up and replied. "Huh?! Guess it must be the rumor of the day."
"More like rumor of the year" Flack interjected almost immediately.
Stella gave Flack a puzzled look.
"What?! You'd think people inside the lab see much sunlight?"
"Flack, you should really change your field to forensics, then you'd know how much sunlight you are currently missing out on."
"I would, but then Mac would have to fire you." Flack raised both of his eyebrows daringly.

Stella eyed Flack suspiciously with an acknowledging nod.
Flack grinned as he anticipated as to what he was about to say next.

'I'll sign you into a hotel room?'
'Park View? Done!?', Flack continued.
"Even I wouldn't go there, and mind you it's Mac we're talking about."
"Who told you that?!"
"Oh, let's just say: I have my sources."
"For your information, I was in need." Stella tried to explain.
"Sure!" Flack humored Stella.

"Oh yeah, and what about that time when your apartment burnt down? He gave you a coffee!' and continued his sentence by putting on his best Mac voice "and said 'well, I have a spare room'-awww! He wouldn't even let me in when I had my apartment ramsmacked by grudge holding mobsters! I had to beg!"

"Hmm, I understand now." Stella exclaimed.
"Understand what?!"
"Understand why Mac didn't invite you over." Stella held her unique playful smile as she spoke.

"Just cause I wear ties!" Now Flack was grinning. They both knew exactly what the other was referring to.

"You do realize we cops do notice how you work your way around his ties, and for some unknown reason you get to waltz around with your low cut tops and hairdos that could compromise crime scenes. Oh yeah and running in those high heels?! Wait, I forgot, Mac will back you up." Flack said triumphantly and almost burst into laughter.

"Flack, I'd Shutteruppy if I were you, or you just might find yourself working under Mac." Stella winked.
"Ha! You'd like that wouldn't you?" snapped Flack.
"I already am!" Stella replied instantaneously.
Ergh, boom?!
"I didn't mean it like that. Oh my god! You're 5 years old." Stella defended.
"Well, what can I say? My mother still spoon feeds me. Ga ga"
"And hey, whatever you guys get up to after hours, it's none of my business. Look, all I am saying is don't think we don't see it, with all these see through walls, we all saw the look Mac gave you when you loosened up his tie. That cheesy grin, now he doesn't look at me like that."

Stella could not suppress her laughter. "You cops, no wonder you guys get shot at"
"Well, it's sort of a hate love thing. They only shoot us because they love us." Flack smirked
"Flack, I don't even know how to respond to that."

"Ok Stella, I'm off to see your tie-less friend" and winked as he exited out of Stella's office.

Hmm, working under Mac? I can't believe he had the guts to speak to me so freely about Mac and my relationship. Well I suppose he's not actually working in the forensics area, so it's more of a friend to friend basis when we talk, but still he should know better than to talk about Mac and me. Flack really doesn't have the word awkward in his vocabulary.

2 Hours after the conversation Flack and I had.

"Who discovered the body?" I looked at Mac in surprise and smiled gladly, not knowing he was behind me until we said the exact same phrase at the exact same time. When I turned around he dodged my eyes shyly and quickly while looking slightly embarrassed when Flack said "you guys have been working together for way too long." Mac nodded and smiled. Flack always had a way of reminding people of important matters in life. Somehow in that moment Mac and I had, I found it conveyed more than words could explain. A mixture of feelings was exchanged and a sense of acknowledgment that we both knew we've been through a lot. It was right at that moment where we felt this was more than just a friendship between two people.

Stella was In the computer lab waiting for a CODIS match and Flack spotted her while walking by.

"Soo, which part of the 'you guys have been working together for way too long' did you guys not get?"
"The part after you guys" Stella raised her eyebrows and held a snickering sided smile.
"But I did get something. "
"And which part would that be?"
"The part that's none-of-your-damn-business" Stella laughed proudly.
"Come on! Both of you said the same thing, at the exact time!"

"All I'm saying is he didn't even offer Quib..."
"Quinn" Stella corrected.
"Qwine, Queen, Whatever. What I was about to say was, boy was she into Mac and mind you, Mac was attracted to her, but."
Stella nodded sarcastically.
"But what?"
"Boom! Interested now, are we? But ... she's just not ... YOU!"
Stella could not suppress her surprised look. What Flack said was almost too truthfully said from the sly comical Flack.

"You two love birds remind me of the X-Files, you know Mulder and Scully?! You know what?! You two even have the first letters of their names. Mulder- Mac. Scully-Stella." And that got Stella laughing.

"And you know what I think?! I think you're in love with Mac." Stella put on her half playful, half serious tone.
"You got me, it's those piercing bluish green eyes, and his muscular arms especially Mac in black…Or was it when he's wet." Flack said lifting his eyebrows with a suppressed laughter. He knew that got to Stella, somewhere.

"Hey Flack, you really got to stop hanging with Danny and this boom! - Really annoying."
"Anyways, if you're here to play matchmaker Mac then cya laters Flack"
Flack held both hands in surrender and left.

Mulder and Scully, Mac and Stella.
"I like the sound of that," she whispers as a smile uplifted out of her heart.